The Universe Is Unfolding As It Should.

The Great Spirals, With Their Enormous Radial Velocities And Insensible Proper Motions, Apparently Lie Outside Our Solar System.

Wisdom Cannot Be Directly Transmitted, And Does Not Readily Accumulate Through The Ages.

All Nature Is A Vast Symbolism: Every Material Fact Has Sheathed Within It A Spiritual Truth.

Equipped With Our Five Senses - Along With Telescopes And Microscopes And Mass Spectrometers And Seismographs And Magnetometers And Particle Accelerators And Detectors Sensitive To The Entire Electromagnetic Spectrum - We Explore The Universe Around Us And Call The Adventure Science.

The History Of Astronomy Is A History Of Receding Horizons.